My knowledge is mainly mplayer, AlienBBC and to a lesser extent radio streams.
MARTHA, I am not sure what you are asking but here is some background info. If a stream is handled directly by the SB (which is generally the case for MP3 and WMA since SS 6.5) - the speed of the stream will be determined by the URL of the station and it cannot be changed by the user. Although some URLs return a playlist with many URLs, each for a different speed. I'm not sure how the SS & SB select an URL from a playlist - possibly the first one. An example of simple single speed URLs - For the same station somafm groovesalad there are 3 choices of the mp3 stream: 128kbps - http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls 56kbps - http://somafm.com/groovesalad56.pls 28kbps - http://somafm.com/groovesalad24.pls If a station is not a format supported by the SB natively (e.g. RealAudio) then transcoding will be performed in the Slimserver. This can also happen if it is necessary to force Slimserver to handle a format such as WMA by disabling the "built-in" In these case the format and speed of data sent to the SB is controlled by Slimserver and Filetypes settings. Under Player Settings/Audio - there is the Bit rate Limiting setting which will force streams from the Slimserver not to exceed the limit. This is achieved by transcoding a stream which has a high bit rate into a lower speed MP3 stream using lame. This feature is designed to work with files. This limit may also work with some internet radio stream which are handled by slimserver such as RealAudio with AlienBBC although there have been some changes in this area in 6.5. DIANA The directory structure of Bin is mainly for distribution of Slimserver for different OSs so relevant .exe are put into the right directory in a single distribution for all systems. AFAIK once installed Slimserver will look for .exe in the standard Path, the Bin dir and then the OS specific dir. So putting lame in Bin or the MSWin32.. is equally good since you are not re-distributing your installation. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28257 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
